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Philip Snooks
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| Died: | 6th Jan 1836 |
| Accident: | 6th Jan 1836 |
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| Colliery: | Hetton, Downs Pit (Eppleton) |
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| Occupation: | Hewer |
| Notes: | fell down shaft |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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A fatal accident occurred at the Down’s Pit, Hetton colliery. Philip Snooks and Matthew Rutherford, coal hewers, got into the loop to descend into the mine to work, when they fell to the bottom, a depth of 180 fathoms, in consequence of the loop not being fast to the chain. Two masons who were working in the shaft at the time providentially escaped.
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- Local Historian's Table Book of Remarkable Occurrences Connected with the Counties of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham by M.A. Richardson. Published in five volumes in 1844.
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